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ownCloud in a box

ownCloud in a box packages ownCloud as an appliance, so you can easily run it in a virtual environment, as a live system or install it on a disk.

Run the appliance, go to http://[yourservername], and follow the instructions there.

Also remember to change the root password of the system after the appliance has booted.

One note about the versioning of the appliance: The major version of the appliance follows the major version of ownCloud. The minor versions are not directly related. See the release notes for what exact minor version is included in the appliance.

Cornelius.. I am using a laptop that only has wifi. I get the card to show up (under hwinfo) but none of the linux commands work to connect to a wifi signal. iwlist, iwconfig dont work same as lspci and a few others. Why? How do I connect to a wireless network so I can get an IP and use owncloud? Its a broadcom bw4312 & I have tried multiple repos to try to add the drivers with no luck. Any help?

I found the drivers and cloned your installer but not only does it not install the wifi adapter but it also will not boot properly. Its as if when I clone it the whole bootable partition gets messed up. I have rebuilt it like 100 times and its the same every time. I have used dd, rofus and many other apps to write the iso but it never boots or never installs properly. Not sure why. Do you have any plans to update this to open suse 42.1?

I really just need to know 1 thing. How did you get suse studio to create the Preload USB Image? I can only create hd/usb image and preloaded ISO. Believe me there is a huge difference! as I cant get the preloaded ISO to install and the HD/USB image wont deploy correctly to a HD.

I didn’t update to openSUSE Leap 42.1 yet, because Studio does not support all formats for it. So the preload USB for example is not available for it. At some point I will have to do the update, though, to stay on a current and maintained base.

Cornelius.. I am using a laptop that only has wifi. I get the card to show up (under hwinfo) but none of the linux commands work to connect to a wifi signal. iwlist, iwconfig dont work same as lspci and a few others. Why? How do I connect to a wireless network so I can get an IP and use owncloud?

So far for me, this is the best appliance version of ownCloud to run on ESXi. It does take some work to get fully configured, but I now have it running perfectly with full net access, upgraded itself via web interface to 8.2.3, full SSL with redirect (and I moved my SSL port to something other than 443). Figured out how to set the time zone properly, but looks like NTP is not part of this package so couldn’t get that working.

But so far I love it.

First step is to edit the ovf file to change the VirtualSystemType from vmx-09 to vmx-08 (I have ESXi version 5.0) and change the ovf:id to 83, and delete the manifest file (.mf) since you changed things.

Then import it into ESXi with the Deploy OVF Template

Once it is in, it is probably too small of a container to hold lots of backups. I changed the disk size in ESXi (say 300gb for example) then you have to use gparted to increase the linux volume size. Best way is to upload the gparted .iso image to the ESXi datastore, then mount the .iso image as a CD-ROM. Then set the VM’s boot option in Edit Settings, Options tab, Boot Options to Force BIOS setup on the next boot. Reboot, and once in BIOS change the CDROM to boot first. Then if you have mounted the .iso image correctly as a CDROM, and connected at power on, when you reboot it should go right into gparted. Use the slider to resize /dev/hda1 and pull the slider all the way to the right to make it as large as possible. Then disconnect the .iso image and reboot again, and you should now have a very large linux volume.

Then make all the network settings. Unfortunately, you have to do them manually using vi. I changed mine to static IP, set the gateway, set the DNS and added a routes file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifroute-ens33 to tell it the gateway. Also edited the hostname. Then try to ping www.google.com to make sure it can reach the internet (probably only really needed if you want it to update and send emails).

Time zone comes set to Berlin time and is a symbolic link /etc/localtime – you have to rm /etc/localtime then recreate it with your time zone, i.e. “ln -s /user/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime” and poof the time zone is correct.

Get HTTPS working with some of the info below, here is what I did:
• head -30 /dev/urandom > ~/randfile
• the following commands will write the server key and certificate in whatever directory you are in unless you specify a full path:
• openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key -rand ~/randfile (pick a passphrase)
• openssl req -new -x509 –days 3650 -key server.key -out server.crt
• answer the questions about location and email address, standard certificate stuff and server.crt will be generated
• copy the key and the certificate to the proper folders
• cp server.key /etc/apache2/ssl.key/
• cp server.crt /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/
• edit the /etc/sysconfig/apache2 file with vi (following must be CAPS)
• APACHE_START_TIMEOUT=“10”
• APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS=“SSL”
• cp /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.template /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf
• configure the main site to use HTTPS
• Edit the /etc/apache2/default-server.conf file and add IncludeOptional /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf line in that file.
• Edit /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf file as shown below:

• Restart apache with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
• Enter SSL passphrase that you used (we will remove this later)
• Check if the port is listening
• netstat –an | grep 443
• That seemed good enough to get HTTPS working on 443 but a redirect for port 80 users is still needed
• Also browsers need a security exception confirmed because it is a self-signed certificate
• Set up redirect in apache, edit /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf with vi and put these lines in it:

• Now move the listener to port 4430 if you want
• Alter the suse firewall rules by editing /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 file to add port 4430 to the FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP line if you moved the port from 443 to 4430
• Edit the /etc/apache2/listen.conf file to add a listener to port 4430
• Edit the /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf file to change the virtual host to be on port 4430
• Remove passphrase from key with:
Openssl rsa –in server.key –out newserver.key then move newserver.key to server.key
• If the domain name is foreign, edit /srv/www/htdocs/owncloud/config/config.php and configure the “trusted domains” array. If you access it from the outside with a different FQDN than the box itself, ownCloud will refuse the login and tell you. In that case, you need to add your outside name to the trusted domains.

Then I set up all the standard ownCloud stuff, accounts, SMTP server, email addresses, folders, clicked the link to upgrade ownCloud which moved it to 8.2.3 (I don’t think it will go to 9 via web page update)

Did some interesting work with the client on servers. Servers don’t usually have users logged in, so you can set the client to run as a service on a server that doesn’t have people logged in normally:

a. Install ownCloud client normally but do not set it up for any normal users
b. Do not set up any shared folders with the administrator account. OK to enter the login credentials if you want but after that skip setting up any shared folders
c. Two stand-alone programs are needed to configure owncloud.exe to run as a service under the SYSTEM account, nssm.exe and PsExec.exe. Copy those to the ownCloud program folder
d. The following steps are from http://oerinet.net/wordpress/author/admin/ in the Client Setup section at the bottom
e. Open an elevated command prompt on the server (run as administrator) and change directory to the ownCloud client folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\ownCloud)
f. Run PsExec from the command line with the following syntax – “psecec –i –d –s cmd”
g. Enter “whoami” and verify the command window that opened is running as part of the nt authority\system account
h. Change the directory of this new command prompt to the location the client is installed by entering “cd C:\Program Files (x86)\ownCloud”
i. Open the ownCloud client in this command window by entering “owncloud” and the client will start but be running as the SYSTEM user
j. Configure the client normally now for what folders you will want ownCloud running as a service to synchronize.
k. Now install OwnCloud as a service using NSSM. Close the command window that was part of the system account and go back to the original command window
l. Run nssm with this syntax – “nssm install owncloud”
m. In the application path section, browse to the owncloud.exe file
n. In the details tab, under service name, change the startup to Automatic (Delayed Start)
o. In the log on tab, make sure Local System Account is selected
p. Click on install service. This will create a Windows service called owncloud that runs the client under the local system account
q. Now open administrative tools, services and start the owncloud service
r. Test the sync by dropping a file that you recognize in the folder you shared and verify it shows up on the ownCloud server (using the web interface to verify)
s. If you ever need to change what folders sync, then you have to use PsExec again to open ownCloud client under the local system account to make any changes in it. Stop the ownCloud service first, then get a command window running as the local service account with psexec, run owncloud.exe, make your changes, exit ownCloud fully, then start the owncloud service again

There you now have all my secrets, which answered a LOT of the questions asked here.

I can’t find the username/password to log into the console. I can’t connect via the webpage. All previous comments point to the description for the password but it’s not there. Those comments are years old so maybe the webpage has changed. Can someone just post the default username/password in a reply?

I am using ownCloud in a box version 7.0.5 (inside VMware Workstation). How could I migrate data from the v7.0.5 VM to the v8.0.0 VM (or any other successive versions)?

IMHO, it might be easier if the VM has two virtual hard drives to start with and one of the HD only contains ownCloud database. In this way, we only need to move the virtual hard drive file from previous version VM to new version VM and normally, that’s (almost) all we need.

I’ve Downloaded the live CD/DVD and setup on vmware, but upon boot the appliance is not installing onto the hdd from selection ownCloud in a box, then starts up with following message systemd-udevd221: maximum number (72) of children reached ??? then linux login appears. Did I miss something? or is the iso corrupt?

I’ve just downloaded and tried the VMWare image and it works fine. I mean, for test, it’s OK. But for real use, I need some answers. It would be nice if somebody could give them to me:
1. What to do if I need to extend the disk space? I know it currently has about 14 GB of free space. But in case I need bigger space, what to do? I mean, in VMware, I know how to increase virtual disk space. But inside O/S, what to do?

I can’t figure out why, but I’ve been searching for over two hours on this site and I can’t find an instruction manual. I installed the ISO onto the HD and it installs correctly, but I need instructions on how to change the DHCP to a static IP. There’s a few examples below, but they’re cryptic and doesn’t explain what IP, DNS, etc goes where. Also, what is all this talk above about a graphical interface? When I installed it I got a simple console login. There’s no startx or graphical boot manager. Can someone give me the link to the instruction manual? thanks!

For me the root password works. Strange… Btw, here is a new link again. Somehow the link expires, but it should be fixed now. My email is enoch85@gmail.com Please email me if there are any further issues.
http://goo.gl/EIOIf3

Does not have the “external storage” option. That is a feature available since ownCloud 5. Did you disable this anywhere or am I forgetting to do something?

Tried going to admin → admin and searched everywhere else but could not find the info.

Running on KVM after converting the VMDK disk to QCOW2. This is a test environment and mounting an external storage is mandatory. Really would like to use your build since it is very well installed already.

Just installed the latest version 6.0.4 from the preload ISO, and all seemed well.
Changed “root” password
Changed to static IP
Changed hostname
rebooted
Log into the webpage and enter the credentials u/p: admin/owncloud42
and its rejected, I cannot log into the web interface

Haven’t found why/what the password is different, but I was able to fix this.
Delete the “config.php” file then log into the site again, it will require you to set up an admin account again and the data folder.

As there are quite some questions about setting up SSL, do you think the ownCloud appliance should come with SSL set up by default? I could try to include that in the configuration, so that the images all would already have ownCloud set up for access by HTTPS.

Hi Cornelius, It would be great if the appliance had SSL enabled by default, i would definitely appreciate it if it was included. In the meantime i guess i’ll keep trying to get it to work myself. :( Thanks for all your work on this.

Alfathin,
no, sorry, no time, and I am not an educational institute.
You can read below what I did, and optionally clone my appliance and see
how it works.
It needs some manual setup, which depends on your particular wishes and environment.

I did not find a way yet to automate the “generate a valid certificate” on startup, since it needs input depending on where your owncloud instance lives on the internet ( the FQDN needs to match the reality )

got ssl to work.
first of all, you need to change the trusted_domains variabel array
( or remove it ) from config.php in
/srv/www/htdocs/owncloud/config/config.php
It filters on domains you can login from. have a proper ssl certificate is probably better for your security…..

echo To allow the usage of https api in webui code you need to trust your
echo certificate as well:

cp /srv/obs/certs/server.pem /etc/ssl/certs/
c_rehash /etc/ssl/certs/

change the owncloud-vhost-ssl.conf in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d so that it reflects the names and location of your server.crt and server.pem file
( at the ====> markers below)
( I removed all the comment stuff for brevity’s sake. )

Cornelius,
You created and shared a great build that I use at home. For storing and sharing at home, it works exceedingly well and even works from browsers externally.

I wonder if you have had any issues with sync apps that I have encountered. For some reason I cannot get the sync app to connect outside of the local network. Oddly, I can connect via both a browswer and WebDav from inside and outside of the LAN while I can connect via the app internally. Yet, I am unable to connect via the app once away from the LAN. I checked the ports in the router and they all seem to work (as is also evident since I can connect via browser when away).

After some intense google-based troubleshooting, I tried modifying the ports in “listen.conf” within Apache and even added a custom port for connecting via :8080. Still, I encounterd the same issues when entering the address with the specified port. I know that my system does not have port 443 available for forwarding since it is being used elsewhere. Thus, I am at a loss. It seems the ports are the source of the problem but I am not sure what else to do or what to try. As alluded to before, I looked in the owncloud forums and other sites, but this as far as I can get with them. Any ideas or advice?

I installed the virtual version on VMware ESXi5.1, everything is work well, but the SSL, how can i enable the SSL? I am new learner on linux, anyone can show the detail step on enable SSL? Thank you so much!!!

I downloaded and installed the virtual version on a VMware server running ESXi5.1 and had no network.
Exactly this problem: http://suse-studio-users.1598176.n2.nabble.com/Networking-broken-in-13-1-td7578394.html
Like the last post on that page, I renamed the ifcfg from -eth0 to -ens33, rebooted and it works.

I’m a linux noob, so I’m not sure why no-one else has mentioned this problem, but it seems to be common with SUSEStudio 13.1 builds on VMware systems.

I downloaded the preload iso version.
But I found the size of the image doesn’t match with the lable 1.01G. The downloaded size of image is 419M.
And I try to install it…. oh .. I found it just installed the suse studio.
There has NO owncloud in a box!!!

this appliance is unfindable. ownCloud in the search box doesn’t do it, any way………
found this one through owncloud.org, then tried studio, nothing found….. then tried through your name…..
that worked….
I think studio is great, but the search function needs some serious love……

6.0.1 is the version number of the appliance. It doesn’t correspond 100% with the version number of ownCloud, as sometimes I have to fix issues in the appliance without updating ownCloud.

Quoting from the description of the appliance: “One note about the versioning of the appliance: The major version of the appliance follows the major version of ownCloud. The minor versions are not directly related. See the release notes for what exact minor version is included in the appliance.”

Hey, I’m new to this, I’ve downloaded the iso live cd , and I’m wondering if there’s a way to actually install it on the hard disk? or at least how to add external usb hard disk to be used later as the users space.

steps to reproduce it:
1- Log in as admin and create user A and user B
2- install ownCloud-1.4.2-setup.exe on two pcs and login with user A and user B data respectively
3- user A creates a text file onto [userAdir]/owncloud folder, the text file is syncronized to the server
4- user A logs into http://[owncloudserver]/owncloud and shares the text file with userB with “edit” permission
5- when userA shares the file with userB, the file is copied to [userBdir]/owncloud/Shared
6- userB modifies the text file and save the changes, owncloud 1.4.2 client detects the change and tries to upload the modified file to the server, it get “BasRequest” error message

I am a total Noob and have some questions. I downloaded the pre-load image and the USBISO image. When I boot from my usb drive I wait until I get a login prompt. I pu tin root/linux for credentials which are accepted but then what? I have no idea what to do after that….

Ok, figured it out. I had to run “ip a s” from the command line in order to get my IP address. I then went to that address from another computer and logged in with admin/owncloud42. It’s upgrading to 5.0.11 as I’mwriting this.

I had the same issue with trying to attach a samba share and I was able to get it working with the below command. I am by no means a linux expert but hopefully this will get ya started. This is the only package manager/installer I could get to work….

HHHEEEELLLPPP puhh iam a absolut Suse Noob. I want to learn but its sometimes difficult to get the Information. I have installed the cloud in a box at an ESX and it works fine. But know i see that in the linux the smb client and ftp client is missing. I think that this is no configuration fr the owncloud. Think this must be installaed in the Suse. And now iam at the end. i have logged on at the sus by user root and password linux. but i have no idea how to install the tftp and smb client. Sorry but i need help for noobs with exactly commands and syntax can help me anybody?

Hi Cornelius,
Thanks a lot for a fantastic peace of software. Sorry for a newbee question, i did not find the answer in this thread.
I am installing the appliance with virtualbox image, works absolutely fine. But i can not understand how to mount external folder from my server. I am setting shared forlder in Virtualbox but can not understand how i would find or mount it inside of appliance. Thanks for a guide in advance.

Hi friends,
I’m really frustrated. Latest installation loaded today. Either in vmware or on a real laptop works the dhcp client. Fixed address on the networkcard does not detect the nameserver. VMware works only with NAT.

1. How do we increase the max upload size past 2GB? I have another install of OC at home and I was able to do this by changing the upload_max_filesize in php.ini. This isn’t working on the appliance and I have changed exactly the same parameters in all the php.ini files I could find.

2. I want to move the data directory to network storage. I am mounting the partition in fstab and the html for the login page loads, but I get an error that it cannot access database. The uid and gid of the folders have been set to same user as web server and chmod to 777 and still no luck.

I downloaded the VMX of ownCloud (5.0.7) and it will not let me change PW until I set up encryption under the extensions. As they do not recommend turning that on for production, you may want to remake your VMX to not have that turned on in the first place, as turning it back off kills the ability to change your password. More info in the comments on this page (linked to comment).

Whenever I get into the web interface. it asks for a username/password. I’ve used owncloud before and upon first boot you should be prompted to create an admin account. What is the admin account username/password?

Hi, Im new to all ov this but when I load it, it gos to a pronpt black screen an ask for user name an pasword I have done that but where do i go from there is there a commant or somthing i need to do to get to the disktop GUI?

Just for people who runs into this problem too: when you configure your client you need to point it to http://ipaddress/owncloud/ – if you point it just to ip then system will not work because it is looking for files in the root directory of the website. The database and rest of required information is placed in /owncloud/

This would be handy to be changed so there is no need to do manuals for end users and explain to them why they have to do it one way or the other? IP addres or host name would be much more logical choice in this case.

Downloaded Desktop client but when I try to login I get error !
(BTW: not SSL and OS is win 7 64bit)

Trying to connect to ownCloud at http://192.168.1.243…
Failed to connect to ownCloud!
Error: Error downloading http://192.168.1.243/status.php – server replied: Not Found
Connection to ownCloud could not be established. Please check again.-—————————————————
I enabled loging – it might be helpful …. I’m lost !

OK, the Appliance works and I even managed to give it a static IP that seems to work. SSL, however, is a different story. I have tried three different guides for enabling SSL and none of them match entirely the setup used in this Suse.

Anyone have a simple step-by-step that matches this appliance? I really want to try the clients and they (and I) want SSL.

Same issue here. It appears to use parts of several methods. I’ve tried several different tutorials etc and only ended up making my web interface inaccessible until I removed the changes for SSL. If anyone, including the publisher has any suggestions they would be appreciated.

Downloaded Version 4.5.15, tried to start the VM but it failed 9 of 10 times. The only time it worked, zypper doesnt work because it looks like VM started with IPv6 and Zypper cant handle this … someone else similar problems?

I have download the latest ownCloud_in_a_box.i686-4.5.15.VHD and its fired up. However i dont have DHCP and so no IP address. What im after is the root password and i’ll be set, Ive seen a couple posts of people asking for the same thing – but i dont see answer.

32bit?! What, no 64 bit? Good day…..Also need an manual that explains this in laymans terms. In other words, what the heck am I doing? How can I maximize the use of this product. You know, some examples….

So i have it up and running, its fantastic but I found out that my ISP is blocking port 80. I have noip set to redirect port 80 to 8080 but it still doesnt work for external access. Do I have to change the ports in owncloud in a box? if yes, how?

hello, i try to upload a 500mb file with the webbrowser interface. the max upload filezise is set to 512mb by your defaults. the upload will take about 2-3hours. when the upload is finished i get the “token expired…” message and the file is not there. what must be changed to do a upload for a couple of hours?

This is a really cool project. It inspired me to build a Ubuntu virtual machine with ownCloud. I built mine with a desktop interface because I don’t like doing everything via command line. Check it out: http://www.ben-costello.com/ubento-with-owncloud-part-1/

Hi, everything is running fine with the new version. But i have some problems with ssl. I generated certficates and put them into default-vhost-ssl.conf. But i got ssl error 107 in firefox and chrome.
So can you tell me please where is my error? Or are there any futher instructions? I am not so sure that everything i did is correct. Thx for your help.

Great work. I was able to get everything working great but need to change the port. I edited the listen.conf file in the apache folder. only way to acces the webpage is to change port back to 80. Am i missing something?

Quick question . i am running this appliance in VMware ESXi and also have a windows server 2012 VM setup in esxi which is running ADDC … I would like to use my active directory as authentication credenditals for access to open cloud.. i have no idea how to do this or how it relates to LDAP.. also i see ldap warnings in the log does that mean anything ? any detailed step by step instructions would be great. btw because i am an idiot and new to all this stuff i only was successful in setting up my ADDC as a local domain called electronet.local basically because i dont know how to setup a domain name subnet “olivetree.davisdarvish.com” to be my domain name.. all the records i need to change with my registrar and etc makes this way too confusing for a n00b like me..; anyhow please help.. thanks in adv

- the .tar.gz file is seen as very strange from Windows programs that are normally perfectly able to read .tar.gz files – however works just fine from Linux

- the virtual machine starts just fine (it is a text-mode server so there is not much to see there) – HOWEVER depending on the network-related settings in your OS and VMware installation IT MIGHTSHOWINITIALNETWORKPROBLEMS – the thing is that the virtual machine is (CORRECTLY!) using bridged networking (meaning that the virtual machine can be seen outside the local host), but if you have a number of networks and the Virtual Network Editor in VMware is set on Automatic there might be cases when the virtual machine does not get an IPv4 address from your network DHCP server/router!

Something similar happened to me, I use VirtualBox 4.1.22 on Windows 7.
The first time I booted the VM worked like a charm and still does using Bridged Network.

Then, I copied the machine and moved it to my Linux machine also using virtual box 4.1.22 on Lucid, and then the network was gone, could not get an IP address, not even the network interface was active

I think each time you modify or give a new MAC address in VirtualBox settings, udev assigns a new eth number, the solution I found was to edit (on the Guest OS)

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

or delete that file, anyway it will be created at the next reboot.
So if you move VMachines around, assign the same MAC or modify/delete that file

im a little noob with linux but how can i install i only get command line interface pls help me

BlackFox,
Thursday, 04 October 2012
can i install i only get command line interface pls help me[/quote]

In order to get proper help, can you specify which are you using? Virtual (VMWare, Virtual Hard disk, Xen image). I am using VMWare with the virtual image, and when I start it in VMWare, Linux loads up and then I can access the ownCloud via the browser and IP address the Linux server is using.

I manage to set up the owncloud, I can log in and create contacts, I can download them as default.vcf, but whenever I try to import this file, there is no success. Even after minutes it says “importing” and on the server there are messages like:

Hi,
This is great, I never could get everything going right without the appliance. .. But, since this is an appliance, why not give it the host name of “owncloud” and put the Owncloud directory in the webserver root, so you could just start it up with: http://owncloud/ ?

I downloaded the vmware appliance and there is a very weird bug with the networking. I cannot disable ipv6 to allow ipv4 to start working.
I have tried to follow some guides, but i don’t think its working, and I can’t see the error during bootup cause it goes by so quickly.
Does anyone else have this issue? Novie openSUSE user, my usual linux commands don’t seem to like me very much.
It also complains A LOT about a martian address, i’ve never ever ever seen this problem. I can hardly type a sentence before it tells me i have martians.

Nice Work! I uploaded this to EC2 and was able to get in and am up and running. When I go to the settings page i get the following error at the top of the page.

Security Warning
Your data directory and your files are probably accessible from the internet. The .htaccess file that ownCloud provides is not working. We strongly suggest that you configure your webserver in a way that the data directory is no longer accessible or you move the data directory outside the webserver document root.

Ok, actually the challenge seems to be just a little bit bigger than what I’m willing to investigate for now: In order to get the .htaccess working as desired, I changed “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” in the Apache2 default server config file and then enabled modrewrite by calling “a2enmod rewrite”, now that part seems to work but I get a 403-forbidden and in addition a 404 error page not found when trying to log-on so apparently the line in the htaccess that deals with 403 errors is not working somehow.

Anyways, I think it is a great appliance but if you use it out of the box, be aware that all your files are essentially public.

I tried ownCloud-in-a-box yesterday and I think it’s great but I just cannot figure how to do a permanent from the live CD. I tried the preload version too without any luck. I know there is a link to view install instructions but when I go to it I cannot for the life of me find what I need.

Another question. I cloned the VM and set the IP to static. When the VM runs on a Windows-Server which uses dyndns via Port 80 through my NAT, is it possible to access the owncloud-VM via the same link? Acctually Im using the Homeserver, which has a feature called remote-access. You can acces the Website through youname.homeserver.com.. Is it possible to access the VM by adding /owncloud or a portnumber to make it accessable from the entire Internet? :)

Hey there. Im looking for a specific solution to get own cloud working on a windows homeserver, through virtualbox. BUT Im not really in to Linux..So I was just wondering, if there is a tutorial to get the box working? I’ve downloaded the Live version and have installed it on a virtual disk in virtualbox. How can I use it now? Just visit “localhost/owncloud/” in the browser of my hostsystem? Isnt localhost the name for the hostsystem as well? Im confused! Is there a short tutorial out there?
Anyway, great work1

Now its working. Awesome. Thats, what Ive done:
Download virtual vmdk-file for virtualbox
Configure virtualbox with bridged network
find out, what Ip adress is used by the running suse instance by login in as root and typing “ifconfig”
what youll get is the ipadress which has to be added to your browser “http://yourip/owncloud”

Ok, I’m a linux noob trying to get this going and learn something in the process. Here’s what I’ve done and where I’m at….

1. Uploaded and launched the default AMI to my EC2 account.
Once the instance was running, I went to http:/[EIP]/owncloud but no dice.
I decided to connect to SSH in Putty. Problem is I was never given the option to download the key pair (.pem file) which I would need to convert to a .ppk file in order to access SSH. Doh!
2. Created a duplicate AMI with my own key pair and was able to get in via Putty. However, I still cant get in through the browser. I’ve tried everything! (but the right thing apparently). Any help would be very much appreciated!

My client can’t synchronize because the system time between the server and the client differs too much.
The time on the client and the server differs only 2 seconds. But I think it has to do with the time zone.

Found changed to virtual istead of media, to test it.
But for me the Vbox maschin is the same, like the one i set up, but with mine didn’t get an IP if i lookup ifconfig. Stupit. But this way it works.

When I boot from the LiveCD version 4.0.2, I am prompted for the linux-erxq username/password. I enter admin/owncloud42 but these credentials are rejected.
What are the correct credentials? Is this a bug?

It’s not a bug. You have to use the credentials of the system users. See the section “Accounts” a little bit above in the description of the configuration. The admin/owncloud42 credentials are only for the web interface.

There has got to me more to getting this to work then simply booting a usb and type http://localhost/owncloud. I stumbled across owncloud and wanted to give it a test. I have downloaded both the Virt (running on openbox) and the bootable usb. Each boots to the linux shell. Now what? I can’t just simply type http://localhost/owncloud. it doesn’t open anything. “page cannot be displayed” As I said I am new so I just must be missing something, somethings?? Someone Please educate me.

I have made good progress. Changed network setting from NAT to Bridged and I can now access ownCloud. I have a few ongoing issues that I have not resolved. Some I have seen here but no known resolution. anyway.
1. Can’t add new user. I see a couple of people have mentioned it but I don’t see how they have solved it.
2. I have the “The System time between the local…..” same as Tim Miller.

3. I would like to simple use my existing “photo”, “music” folder to share in ownCloud but can’t seem to do that. Or, Where does the VM version store the files it is sharing? On the virtual disk?

4. Last, I can’t goo to the web interface and add any file, no matter what size file it tell me the fine size is too big.

I have downloaded and install the virtual iso and it is working.
Able to login into the web interface add a user etc.
But after I install the client I am getting the “The system time between the local machine and the server differs too much”.

So I am in the central time zone, install the America/Chicago zone, I check the linux server by doing a date and it is correct (Mon May 7 16:18:29 CDT 2012) and the windows 7 (tested on a xp also) computer same date and time with a time zone (UTC-0600) Central Time.

What am I missing? or steps to correct the issues.

By they way thanks for making a install ISO it is so handy and makes it easier for us that are not experts in linux easier. And gets our feet wet in the linux world and explorer more with linux.

I’m having the same problem. I tried in both Chrome and Firefox. I have owncloud installed on my home server on top of FreeBSD and I have a problem with the accounts page there too. At least on my server I can add users, I just can’t remove them from from any groups once I’ve added them to a group. It’s certainly an issue when it’s the admin group. Thankfully no one other than me even uses my ownCloud instance yet. I really want to get ownCloud and Mirall working so that I can drop Dropbox. I hate giving my data to a third party.

Got this solved. One need to open the ports for ssh (and http) manually.
Next problem: How do I get the data saved permanently? EC2 service only supports temporary data storage which will be cleared after reboot. Any suggestions?

https needs setup of a certificate. This can’t be done in the prebuilt appliance, but needs to be done after installation. Would be great to have some instructions how to do it, though. Maybe there is already some help out there we could at least link to.

What? I am not quite a nooby, but I must be missing something here. How do I install the Hard Disk version (or any version for that matter)? The file is a compressed file and once you decompress it, you have a file with a .RAW file extension. What do I do with it? I am trying to install OwnCloud In a Box onto a computer that is already running Linux (Crunchbang Linux") but I don’t see how to do this. I don’t care about keeping the current Linux on the computer. I just want the OwnCloud server on my computer. Can someone give me plain, detailed instructions? Thanks a lot.

Sorry, was blind for a minute…
>> “Run the appliance, go to http://[yourservername]/owncloud and login as admin with the password owncloud42. Change the password in the admin interface and use the URL, which is shown there to access ownCloud via WebDAV.” <<

Hello, I just try to run as XEN guest, but when going create this instance it returns
Error: (1, ‘Internal error’, ‘xc_dom_do_gunzip: inflate failed (rc=-3)\n’)
It was working smoothly before 12.1 upgrade.
Any ideas?

this is most likely a permissions issue, you have to make sure that the webserver user has r/wr access to the s3 bucket you are mounting.
Also, as a side-note/warning, mounting s3 buckets isn’t very stable and it often unmounts itself due to connection / timeout issues.
Hope this helps

Hmm, this is hard to use. Services fail to start at startup because of missing ip, ifconfig does not store ip adress permanent so a restart of the box forgets the ip I have set.

So, I need to edit ifcg-eth0, but I get stuck in VI-editor because I cant change keyboard settings to Swedish ( set Swedish in startup-screen, but thats ignored). Changing keyboard settings is not easy because I have wrong keyboard to even put basic commands. Yast is not there, is that to easy?

Anyway, last resort, download webmin then so I might get some sort of gui to the box running, but wget is not here either, and not lynx either from what I can tell. Funny, all I need to do in order to get stuff work is set an IP address and get proper language on keyboard… Im not a noob and not an expert either, baffled about me not getting this to work, will try some more….

The system is meant as a minimal system, that’s why it doesn’t include much tools. If you need more or you just want to change the network settings, you can simply clone the appliance, and modify it to fit your needs.

Then I managed to “vi /etc/resolv.conf” and add “nameserver 192.168.250.129”

So, finally, I can surf to the box and connect ownCloud! If I restart the box however, the settings are gone. So, Now I am trying hard to get webmin on the box in order to getting it easily managed. I have at last managed to download the RPM;

You don’t have to do the network configuration manually. You can create your own appliance based on my one (just click the “clone appliance…” link at the top right of this page, and do the network configuration with the Studio UI. Then it will be persistent and you don’t need to add any other packages (of course you can still add some management tools like webmin or YaST, if you like)

Thanks for the answer.
I used the username and password from the description on the SUSE Gallery page but I still can’t login to ownCloud web interface (have no problem login to the machine).
How do I add users ?

Without yast, it really makes network config interesting. Sure, ifconfig works but the average noob will never figure that out. This should really ship as DHCP enabled, and have some instructions on how to change it. Having a default static IP will almost never work properly.

What is the server name after boot-up ? <> http://[yourservername]/owncloud
I used the vmware image – this failed <> httpd2-prefork , linux-xxvt (no idea or erros posted)
may try again, but must be more user notes, ie step by step
good luck !

I was having the same problem figuring out what to use for server name.
I installed ownCloud in a Virtualbox machine.
Logon the console terminal with the userid = tux and password = linux.
Enter /sbin/ifconfig at the command prompt
Write down the eth0 inet addr: such as 192.168.1.100
Go to http://192.168.1.100/owncloud in your web browser and the ownCloud
web interface should appear. Don’t forgot to use the IP address from the ifconfig
output.

Logon the web interface as admin with the password owncloud42 as documented
at the beginning of this web page.

Hope this help someone.

@Cornelius Schmacher

Some of the other systems with web interfaces display a line showing correct command
to logon with the current IP address. I believe FreeNAS and OpenMediaVault both
display it.

Are you planning to add also S3-type functionality? I need that to test something, but perhaps I must study how to install it myself. I must say the instructions seems a little complicated (Eucalyptus).

This is a server appliance, so the UI for the user is a web interface. Managing the system itself is command line of course, but that’s how it usually is for server systems, and there shouldn’t be much to do for this appliance on the command line, as it’s supposed to more or less work out of the box.